STUDY ON THE PROCESS FROM WINNING LAWSUIT TO CONCILIATION IN THE DISASTER AREA OF ITAI-ITAI DISEASE

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  • KUBOTA Aya
    Dept. of Urban Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo

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  • イタイイタイ病被害地域における勝訴と和解に至るプロセスに関する考察
  • イタイイタイ病被害地域における勝訴と和解に至るプロセスに関する考察 : 土壌汚染公害の被害対応は如何にあるべきか?
  • イタイイタイビョウ ヒガイ チイキ ニ オケル ショウソ ト ワカイ ニ イタル プロセス ニ カンスル コウサツ : ドジョウ オセン コウガイ ノ ヒガイ タイオウ ワ イカニ アル ベキ カ?
  • How should we recovery from the disaster of land contamination by environmental disruption?
  • 土壌汚染公害の被害対応は如何にあるべきか？

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<p> The factor predisposing to the Itai-Itai disease is Cadmium, which had been discarded by the metalliferous mine factory located at about thirty kilo-meter above along the Zinzu River. Poisoning can cause softening of the bones and kidney failure. Because the patients feel so severe pains, the name of the disease was called “it hurts-it hurts”.</p><p> The case area of the recovery from the Itai-Itai disease is exceptional because the injured party won the lawsuit. New knowledge of epidemiology was adopted to support the winning lawsuit.</p><p> Subsequently, the plaintiff, namely the damaged people and the accused party, the aggriever company set a promise to compensate the pollution. The contents of promise consist of three topics; 1) health damage, 2) environmental rehabilitation and development as an agricultural living town, and 3) restraining of recurrence of pollution. It means that they should cover not only the current damage but also the future things. They made it clear what should be done after the artificial environmental pollution.</p><p> To realize the contents, those two parties had made efforts involving other agents. After forty years, the damaged local party accepted the apology from the aggriever company at the first time. Because they could establish a vigilant relationship of trust.</p><p> This paper has illustrated how this area could recovery from such a severe situation by the process of nine phases.</p><p> 1) Outset of contamination source and untreated</p><p> 2) Various damages by environmental contamination</p><p> 3) Collective agency of victims</p><p> 4) Findings of public disruption through winning lawsuit</p><p> 5) Concretization of the assailant</p><p> 6) Clarification of compensation coverage and practice</p><p> 7) Restoration and promotion of damage area</p><p> 8) Social networking based on the damage area</p><p> 9) Beginning of new phase after the conciliation</p><p> The conciliation means that they are entering the new phase how to pass down their experiences to the next generations.</p><p> The enabling factors of this process in terms of the locality and the social situations should be next research issues.</p>

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